Greetings Fellow Rotarians. Welcome to January 2021!
It has been some time since the turning of the calendar has felt so good! Goodbye 2020!
January is Vocational Service month on the Rotary calendar. Vocational service can be hard to define, but it is easy to describe: It is simply the point where our Rotary lives and our professional lives Intersect. When we put our Rotary ideals to work through our work, that is vocational service.
As I have traveled on my Rotary journey, I am again and again reminded of how often our work and Rotary intersect. Here in La Crosse, a few Rotary leaders had an interesting thought: If I asked area organizations what they would do with $250,000… what would their answer be? The results of this simple question, asked of the many incredibly talented and well meaning charitable causes around the Coulee Region, resulted in some truly remarkable ideas. From those discussions emerged an idea – to collaborate with the St. Claire Health Mission, Gundersen Health Systems, Mayo Clinic Health Systems, the La Crosse County Health Department and the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration to support a Mobile Medical Clinic that can travel throughout the region. The vehicle will provide family practice clinical services, preventative care, flu vaccine clinics, youth sports physicals, lab draws, mental health and pharmacy services to adults and children without health insurance. My work in finance puts me in a unique position to have an impact. I knew I could turn my professional path to good and help make this project a success and improve health care for those not covered by our systems throughout our district.